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General Category => Software => Topic started by: milkshake on August 28, 2002, 07:54:47 AM

Title: WinXP Shell mode
Post by: milkshake on August 28, 2002, 07:54:47 AM

I would like to know how I can boot directly into 3rd party software using winxp and not have it go to the desktop first. I do not want to add the program into the startup folder or add a logon script because windows is still accessable.

Eg. in Win98 you can change the system.ini as follows:
;Shell=explorer.exe
shell=c:programsblah blah blah etc...

and then windows will boot straight into my program. Can this be done in win XP ?????

Title: WinXP Shell mode
Post by: prasanth on August 28, 2002, 11:21:28 PM

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindows NTCurrentVersionWinlogon
change the \"shell\" string value
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Title: WinXP Shell mode
Post by: Milkshake on August 30, 2002, 02:42:09 AM

Thanks, tried and tested 100%!